Victor Hugo Quotes

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Victor Hugo

Profession : Author

Birth : February 26, 1802

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Victor Hugo

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

Victor Hugo

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo